Don’t be a fool!
Unexpected Elements
BBC
4.4 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
April 1st is notorious across the globe. Renowned for being a day of practical jokes. And it’s no different here on the BBC World Service.
Mischievous elephants, the secret to fool's gold and one of the biggest scientific hoaxes in scientific history.
From the Magic Circle to the Magic Lab, the psychology underpinning why we humans are so delightfully easy to trick with Professor Gustav Kuhn.
And a question sent in from one of you: if two people eat the same thing for breakfast, does the same thing come out the other end of both of them?
Prepare for a prank or two on Unexpected Elements.
Or as they say in Finland, ‘Aprillia, syö silliä, juo kuravettä päälle’, which translates to ‘April trick, eat herring, drink muddy water afterwards!’
Presenters: Caroline Steel with Camilla Mota and Phillys Mwatee Producers: Harrison Lewis, Alice Lipscombe-Southwell, William Hornbrook and Imaan Moin
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| 0:29.5 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:37.4 | I have a secret. |
| 0:39.7 | It's a horrible little habit. |
| 0:42.2 | Last week, I did it. |
| 0:44.5 | Today I'm doing it. |
| 0:46.7 | In fact, I'm doing it right now. |
| 0:49.8 | You see, I like taking my shoes off wherever I go. |
| 0:54.6 | Whether it's cross-legged on the office chair, at lunch, or even speaking to you over the microphone. |
| 1:01.6 | I'm always in my socks. |
| 1:04.5 | No, this isn't a prank, but it is disgusting. |
| 1:08.5 | I'm Caroline Steele and from the BBC World Service this. |
| 1:12.2 | Producer Harry, that is so unkind. So listeners, I do this thing where I like to take my |
| 1:20.3 | shoes off in the office and the studio and anywhere where I want to feel comfortable. |
| 1:24.3 | And Harry has used this as an opportunity to not only impersonate me, |
| 1:28.8 | but also be unkind about my feet choices. Workplace bullying. Workplace bullying. But tell me, |
| 1:34.4 | Caroline, why you're so comfortable saying it out loud. I've been taking my shoes off for a while |
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